湖南省长沙市高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解训练(78)

Reply to:comm-encbq-2652113885 @craigslist.org 1. Who posted the lost and found information?

A . A mother B. A kind woman C. A heartbroken girl D. A parent 2. If you want to send your kids to the babysitter’s home, you can find one in______. A. Ad 1

B. Ad 2

C. Ad 3

D. Ad 4

3. What do we know about Tina?

A. She can speak two languages. B. She lives alone now.

C. She takes care of children over 3. D. She used to be a teacher’s assistant.

4. An applicant accepted by Ad 5 will have to .

A. be able to speak two languages B. be a college graduate C. work every weekend 参考答案1—4、DCAD

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 【2016高考训练】

The day my husband fell to his death, it started to snow, just like any November day. His body, when I found it, was lightly covered with snow. It snowed almost every day for the next four months, while I sat on the couch and watched it pile up. One morning, I shuffled downstairs and was surprised to see a snow remover clearing my driveway and the bent back of a woman shoveling(铲)my walk. I dropped to my knees, crawled through the living room. And back up stairs so those good people would not see me. I was embarrassed. My first thought was, how would I ever repay them? I didn’t have the strength to brush my hair let alone shovel someone’s walk.

Before John’s death, I took pride in the fact that I rarely asked for help or favors, I defined myself by my competence and independence. So who was I if I was no longer capable and busy? How could I respect myself if all I did was sit on the couch every day and watch the snowfall?

Learning how to receive the love and support that came my way wasn't easy. Friends

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D. look after two children

cooked for me and l cried because I couldn't even help them set the table. “I'm not usually this lazy,” I wept. Finally, my friend Kathy sat down with me and said, \cooking for you is not a burden. I love you and I want to do it. It makes me feel good to be able to do something for you. ”

Over and over, I heard similar emotions from the people who supported me during those dark days. One very wise man told me, “You are not doing nothing. Being fully open to your sorrow may be the hardest work you will ever do.”

I am not the person I once was, but in many ways I have changed for the better. My heart is now filled with thanks for people around me. I have been surprised to learn that there is incredible freedom that comes from facing one’s worst fear and walking away whole. I believe there is strength, for sure, in accepting a dark period of our life.

1. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. The writer’s friend was unwilling to cook for her. B. The writer had been busy with her life before.

C. The writer recovered from her sorrow quickly with his friend‘s help. D. The day her husband died, it was snowing heavily.

3. The underlined word “shuffled” in Paragraph 1 probably means ___________. A. stepped steadily sadly

4. We can infer from the passage that ____________.

A. the writer found her husband immediately he fell off the roof B. the writer became strong-willed immediately after John's death C. the people around the writer were friendly and supported her D. before John’s death, the writer never asked others for help 5. The writer wrote the passage to ___________. A. share her sad story with us

B. express her guilty conscience to the people who helped her C. show her thanks to the people who love and support her

D. tell us the changes she has made because of her husband’s death

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B. walked slowly C. ran swiftly D. fell

参考答案1—4、BBCC

【2016高考训练题】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

As with every other invasive（入侵的）species, introducing worms to an ecosystem（生态系统）that developed without them has an effect on everything that lives there. This concern is very clear in the Great Lakes region. Non — native earthworms（蚯蚓）have been in North America for a couple hundred years, brought over from Europe with soils and plants. More recently, Asian species, sold as fishing bait（饵料）, have started to spread in the Great Lakes region, where there are no native earthworms. In these earthworm-free forests, when leaves fall onto the forest floor and plants and animals die, they build up into what’s called the duff（腐殖质）layer. In this area, it was just bacteria that broke down the organic material for plants to consume and take up. Earthworms come in, they do their job and do it extremely well — they take that forest floor and turn it into the rich black soil you find in your garden. That sounds great-but the local plants and animals in the Great Lakes region are used to living with the duff layer, not in the rich soil associated with earthworms. In addition, the rich top soil left by earthworms can wash out in a heavy rain. The differently produced soil is a problem as well. There’s a mat of fine roots in that duff layer-that’s where a lot of our native plants put their root system. When that duff is gone, it’s a lot harder for them to put their roots into the mineral（矿物质的）soil.

1. What is the author’s attitude towards the work of invasive earthworms ? A. Supportive. B. Worried. C. Doubtful. D. Respectful. 2. How does the Asian species affect the ecosystem of the Great Lakes Region? A. By changing the soil. B. By Killing the native species. C. By eating the native plants. D. By serving as fishing bait. 3. What does the last paragraph mainly talk about ________.

A. Asian earthworms’ work is helpful to the roots of the native plants.

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B. The native plants have finally adapted to the rich black soil. C. The Asian earthworms caused great problems for the local plants. D. The local plants find it easy to put their roots into the mineral soil. 本文讲述了作为鱼饵被引入到美洲五大湖区的亚洲蚯蚓由于改变了当地的土壤环境，而影响当地植物的生长，破坏了生态环境。

1. B.从开头作者就谈到把蚯蚓引到一个无蚯蚓生态区会对生活在那里的万物产生影响。第二段开头又提到。这种担心在五大湖区是显而易见的。因此作者字里行间流露出对亚洲蚯蚓带来的生态影响的担心。

2. A.从第三段可知，在没有蚯蚓的森林中，落叶和动物尸体会堆积成腐殖层，它们是由细菌来分解成可供给植物来吸收的成分的。蚯蚓到来后，它们把地表的腐殖层(特点是:因为是落叶腐烂形成的，所以松软，植物容易扎根。)变成了肥沃的黑土，即第四段中所讲的the mineral soil(矿物质层)(特点是:因为被蚯蚓消化分解后的腐叶实质上已经变成了颗粒团状粪便，比腐殖质要有粘性，坚硬)，从第四段最后两句可知，而这使得习惯了在腐殖质土层植根的当地植物很难在矿物质土层中扎根，植物不能很好的生长了，自然会导致生态系统的破坏。 3. C.最后一段从腐殖质土壤被改变，新形成的矿物质土壤易流失，和当地植物很难在矿物质土层中扎根等三个方面论述了亚洲蚯蚓对五大湖区生态的影响。

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